[SampleMan]

Very well put.

We won the battles. They won the campaign. We won the war. One never hears from the MSM about what a backwater Vietnam is compared to its neighbors.

The Cold War was won, and Vietnam was part of that war.

[Mach9]

Not to mention that forcing the Russian and Chinese communists to spend time, materiel, and men in the 14-odd yr. "intervention" probably eroded at least the USSR's capacity to wage the Cold War.

[rahbert]

Wasn't the supposed "We had to destroy the village in order to save it" quote also a myth? Ill-informed leftish types
regard these as an article of faith.

[RAY]

At a high cost, the U.S. weapons development during and as a results of the Vietnam war could be argued as a benefit of the war.

This is not a Vietnam war endorsement or otherwise, just and observation of a side result.

Another lesson of South Vietnam which fell back into communism, which could apply to Iraq if the Iraqis don't have the determination, courage, and character, to resist those who would take them back to Islamic fundamentalism and autocratic rule. The people of Iraq must secure their own freedom and the rights of democracy.